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  • Microbial communities are vital living systems with diverse functions, increasingly utilized for human applications.
  • Mathematical modeling is crucial for understanding microbial community organization, functioning, and engineering.
  • Agent-based models (ABMs) offer a powerful framework due to their individualistic cell representation and emergent property simulation.

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  • To provide a comprehensive overview of recent advancements in agent-based modeling for microbial communities.
  • To survey state-of-the-art algorithms for simulating microbial system dynamics at multiple scales.
  • To highlight key applications of ABMs in microbial ecology, synthetic biology, and biofilm research.

Main Methods:

  • Review of algorithms simulating intracellular biomolecular events and single-cell behaviors.
  • Survey of methods modeling intercellular interactions and cell-environment dynamics.
  • Analysis of ABM applications in microbial range expansion, synthetic gene circuits, and biofilm formation.

Main Results:

  • Agent-based modeling effectively captures emergent community properties from individual cell behaviors and interactions.
  • Recent algorithmic advances enhance the simulation of complex intracellular and intercellular processes.
  • ABMs have demonstrated utility in elucidating ecological dynamics, designing synthetic microbial systems, and characterizing biofilms.

Conclusions:

  • Agent-based modeling is a key quantitative framework for advancing microbial community science and engineering.
  • Continued development of ABM algorithms is essential for tackling complex biological questions.
  • Addressing computational costs is a critical challenge for broader ABM application in microbial systems.